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PHILADELPHIA -- He cringed for a moment. Bernard Hopkins, a future first-ballot hall of famer and current all-time great, did not like the word. It was as alien to him as the 49-year-old IBF and WBA light heavyweight world champion is to everyone else, defying logic and nature as a viable, elite fighter in a third decade. read news >>

Bellator Fighting Championships will host an open fighter tryout on Jan. 28, officials today announced.
The auditions take place at Daddis Fight Camps in Philadelphia (1719 Washington Ave.) with registration beginning at 1 p.m. ET and tryouts at 2 p.m. ET.
All fighters are welcome, but they must be unrestricted free agents and cannot have any contractual obligations to another MMA promotion.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Philadelphia's Tim Carpenter swung a heavy hammer in his light heavyweight contest with Ryan Contaldi, getting back on the winning track with a brutal right uppercut in the most stirring moment of Bellator 54's undercard at the Boardwalk Hall Ballroom in Atlantic City, N.J. read news >>

PHILADELPHIA - MMAjunkie.com is on scene and reporting live from tonight's UFC 134 event.
The pay-per-view event, which features a middleweight title fight
between champion Anderson Silva and Yushin Okami, takes place at Rio de
Janeiro's HSBC Arena in Brazil.
Follow along with our round-by-round updates and official results
beginning at approximately 6 p.m. ET (3 p.m. PT) for the preliminary
card and 9 p.m. ET for the main card.
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PHILADELPHIA - Rashad Evans seemingly had every factor working against him.
There was the 14-month layoff and potential cage rust. There was the promised title shot that dissolved for a variety of reasons.
Then there was the very public split from his former training camp and his residence with a new team - one that had some insiders doubting his preparations for Saturday's UFC 133 pay-per-view headliner with Tito Ortiz.
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PHILADELPHIA - Who likes short shorts? Clearly not Dana White.
The UFC president said he's dead serious about banning the type of bikini bottoms that Dennis Hallman wore at UFC 133 - the same briefs that ever-so-briefly exposed Hallman's nether regions to Saturday's pay-per-view audience.
"I'm seriously pissed off at the guys who work us who let him walk out with those things on," White said.
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PHILADELPHIA - Following a convincing but low-key UFC 133 win over heavy underdog Rani Yahya, is Chad Mendes still next in line for a UFC title shot?
Following Saturday's event, it was a question UFC president Dana White pondered aloud.
But he also found a way to divert a direct answer: by pointing out a hand injury that could sideline the young contender for the foreseeable future.
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PHILADELPHIA - When it comes to the future, Vitor Belfort has a one-track mind.
And that track directly leads to another shot at the middleweight title.
Despite a quick knockout loss to champion Anderson Silva earlier this year, Belfort feels he's the better fighter. But even after an impressive win at Saturday's UFC 133 event, UFC president Dana White is bearish on the prospects of Belfort getting another title shot anytime soon.
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PHILADELPHIA - When the knee strike landed, Tito Ortiz's body knew the fight was over even if his mind didn't.
In the second round of his pay-per-view headliner at UFC 133, a grounded Ortiz was tagged with a vicious knee to the body from eventual winner Rashad Evans.
The fight-altering blow came after a cat-and-mouse game that - while dangerous - Evans knew would carry him to victory.
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PHILADELPHIA - Saturday's UFC 133 event drew an announced attendance of 11,583 fans and a live gate of $1.5 million.
UFC president Dana White announced the figures in the night's post-event press conference.
UFC 133 took place at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center and saw Rashad
Evans earn a second-round TKO win over Tito Ortiz in the evening's main
event.
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PHILADELPHIA - Rashad Evans, Tito Ortiz and Vitor Belfort
each earned $70,000 "Fight Night" bonuses for their performances
at Saturday's "UFC 133: Evans vs, Ortiz II" event.
Belfort earned the night's "Knockout of the Night" award and Evans and Ortiz took home
"Fight of the Night" honors. With no submissions on the night, there was no "Submission of the Night" bonus.
However, UFC president Dana White also issued $70,000 to Brian Ebersole
in a special "Thanks for getting those horrifyin read news >>